Also I think they learned a lesson from how many people simply grew a habit to click "cancel" in the "please buy this" reminder in Sublime Text.

After years of clicking cancel as a student, I was more than happy to shell out the full amount for a license after my first paycheck. Don't think I would've stuck around if the free versoin was gimped in any way.

I'm so lazy and it's too easy to click "Cancel"... I have a license but a year after re-installing ST I still haven't added it :/

Just search your inbox for "sublime license", and copy the license into Sublime. The whole operation takes me below 1 minute on a new machine.

It'd be nice if there was a command line option for this actually. I have my machine setup almost entirely automated, but this is one of the manual steps I have to do.

As far as I know, it used to be just a matter of writing the plaintext license into the appropriate file: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/license-installation-silentl...

That's still supported, and the same technique works for Sublime Merge, fwiw.

Awesome – thanks for sharing!

Completely off topic but would you care to describe how you install your system automatically?

It's really nothing fancy, just based on strap[1] but then modified a bit. I keep my dotfiles in github and leverage homebrew for installing pretty much everything.

[1]: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap

Sounds like NixOS: https://nixos.org/

I haven't used it in a while, but wasn't this also the main differentiator between Unity and Unity Pro (or whatever the paid version was called)?

It was an excellent motivator. :)